January 29, 1927: “great improvement”

Saturday the twenty ninth
A beautiful warm day. Audrea + her mother went down to the center for her violin lessons. One can notice a great improvement in her playing. I wish she could take private lessons but it seems impossible. Have dragged around + got what work I could done. Did some mending + repairing this p.m.

NOTES + EXPLANATIONS

So I wonder what kind of group violin lessons Audrey is taking “down in the center”, which I’m taking to mean Boston. I didn’t know you could get group violin lessons! Any day now, we should be finding out that Audrey abandoned the violin in favor of the cello, which would become her instrument of choice.

current projects

One Day Less to Live - Images, transcriptions, and historical notes on the 1927-1931 diaries of my 2nd great grandmother, Annie Florence Macdonald (born Annie Florence Morris).

The Captain's Sea Chest - An old wooden sea chest that turned out to be the Pandora’s box of my maternal ancestry; full of not only innumerable photos, letters, and newspaper clippings, but also diaries and even pressed clothing.

The Siberian Coal Mine Mystery - Family legend turned unsolved mystery by the discovery of newspaper articles both supporting and disputing the story of Captain Joseph W. Morris’ imprisonment, chained to a corpse in an underground Siberian coal mine for three years.

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